This morning CBS4 announced the winners of its Most Valuable Blogger awards and we are proud to announce that Colorado Peak Politics won both the People's Choice and Editor's Choice award for best local affairs blog! Thanks so much to all of our loyal readers who cast their vote for us. This site would not be where it is today without your tips, commentary and feedback.

When we announced we had been nominated for the award, perennial political ankle-biter Bill Menezes did his best to downplay the nomination, claiming we had stuffed the ballot box. Never mind the fact that we didn't submit a nomination, Menezes in his quest to rain on our parade jumped the gun just a bit. You can't stuff a ballot box for nominations decided by CBS4 editors.

The Left in Colorado, as we have said many times, has dominated internet politics for years, thanks to heavy helpings of big dollar donor cash. That tide has been turning the last couple of years with the entrance onto the scene of great sites like Peoples Press Collective, Complete Colorado and WhoSaidYouSaid.

The tectonic shift has not been easy for the Left. ColoradoPols still refuses to refer to us by name or link to our posts when they so clearly are responding directly to them. Unlike with your personal income, they are not fans of "sharing the wealth." It's no wonder folks like Menezes are in full attack mode.

2011 appears to be the tipping point for politics on the "series of tubes" in Colorado. Conservatives are taking over.

While Menezes may Tweet again trying to claim ballot box stuffing, he'll have a hard time applying that slander to the Editor's Choice award.

Don't worry, this is the infamous Bill Menezes of the now defunct Colorado Media Matters, who spent a couple years there trying to convince the world there was a great, big conservative media conspiracy. Yea, and Lord Xenu brought humans to earth 75 million years ago. To Menezes, our win is just a reflection of that continuing conspiracy.

You have done an outstanding job keeping us hard working (non-union, real job) Republicans up to speed on the Evil Democratic Empire’s plot at work here in Colorado! I just wish Republicans weren’t afraid of the blogs, more comments would be nice to see. (maybe an open line? hint, hint)

Dear Republicans,

This inter-tubes stuff is truly amazing if properly logged on and modems dialed in! I’m gonna return to the Google and spread the word on my Face-page! …but I’m gonna send out this kitty cat email to my fifty closest friends first.

Underground — I’d also like to see more comments here. God knows why any self-respecting conservative would waste much time trying to get a word in edge-wise over at the liberal swamp that is Colorado Pols.

I think the issue is that most conservatives spend their time discussing articles on Facebook. At least my friends on Facebook do all of their commenting on Colorado politics articles on Facebook.

But the advantage of sites like Peak and Pols is that your comments are seen by a much broader audience.

As election season gets going, I’d bet you’ll see more people weighing in on public forums like the Peak comment section.

That is, after they send that kitty cat picture out to fifty of their closest friends.